Updates from Last Week

Last week and weekend was so crazy, I forgot to mention my last doctors appointment on Thursday. It was a little bit of a scary one, but everything ended up checking out okay. I gained 4 pounds (I was very swollen at the appointment), heartbeat was 130, blood pressure was great and I measured 31 inches again. I asked my doctor is this meant that Jackson hadn't grown and he said it was probably just because of his position.

I also told my doctor that during my 4D ultrasound the tech mentioned that my amniotic fluid was on the low side. You have to know that my doctor is a little old man that has delivered over 9,000 babies, there isn't much that gets him excited... until you mention something like this. He wanted me in ultrasound right away and I was ordered to keep off of my swollen feet. The soonest I could get into ultrasound was the next morning. Jackson looked great, estimated weight was 3 pounds and 15 ounces. My amniotic fluid was a 14, it should be between 5 and 22. Everything was just fine, and we were relived!!! I am still supposed to take it easy and stay off of my feet as much as possible though.

The weekend was super busy between finishing the nursery Friday night, putting on the neighborhood crawfish boil on Saturday and hosting Mother's Day Brunch for our whole family on Sunday... I am doing a great job of listening to the doctor's orders of keeping off of my feet, ha!

My first Mother's Day was very nice. Jackson got me a beautiful "J" initial necklace from Tiffany's for Mother's Day. It was such a nice surprise to come back to bed and find a little blue box on my pillow:)

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Doctor's Appointment

Yesterday I had my 28 week doctors appointment. Everything is looking good, I will now start going every 2 weeks! Jackson's heartbeat was 145 bpm, and I measured at 26 weeks. I asked my doctor is this was okay, I had been measuring right on schedule or a week ahead. He said it just meant that Jackson wasn't going to be a big baby - huge relief. Mr. Wilson was 11 lbs. and 24" long at birth!!!

I also had to do the glucose test, it really wasn't too bad. The worst part was sitting for an hour waiting for the lab to give me the stuff to drink... and then sitting another hour to have my blood drawn.

Oh, and after adjusting my diet to low sodium I only gained 4 pounds this month... which could have been 14+ if I hadn't changed things up! Total weight gain is now at 27 pounds.

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24 week appointment

I had my 24 week appointment yesterday and everything went well. My blood pressure was great, I measured right at 24" and Jackson's heartbeat was 153 bpm. However, I was shocked at the amount of weight I gained in 4 short weeks - 10 pounds! My doctor wasn't concerned at all, but if I continue at this rate I'll be a huge!!! My goal is to walk every night, especially since the weather is getting nice. I am also going to the grocery this weekend and stocking up on good food. No more real ice cream, its back to Weight Watcher's individual cups and fruit!!!

This weekend is the annual skeet shoot for an old friend of Mr. Wilson's that past away about 10 years ago. The weather forecast is horrible - cold and rainy. I will probably spend most of the weekend inside the camp! I'll be sure and post pictures on Sunday. Hope you all have a great weekend!

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Long overdue updates!

I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! I can't believe almost a month has gone by since my last posting. Here are some long over due updates from the past month.

At 11 weeks exactly, December 14th, I woke up around midnight in the most server pain I have ever felt in my life. I had kidney stones about 4 years ago, and this was worse. I won't go into the nasty details, but I must say that Mr. Wilson wins husband of the year for taking such great care of me. The pain was in my lower back, only on the right side. I couldn't walk or stand, it was very scary. Mr. Wilson put me in the car and we went straight to the hospital. I spent the night in the emergency room, and by about 5 o'clock in the morning I seemed to be doing better. The baby was fine, we had two ultrasounds to confirm. I was released to go home...

About an hour after we got home I woke up having another episode, only this time it got worse. We called my doctor and he had me come in to see him. The "episode" had passed, so it was hard for him to tell the amount of pain I had been in. I still couldn't walk or stand, and was very dehydrated from vomiting, so he admitted me into the hospital.

For three days they kept me in the hospital and tested me for everything they could. My ob/gyn and fertility specialist could never get to the root of the problem. It could be the pregnancy, but the baby was doing great. It could be kidney stones, but they would have passed by that time. It could be that my ovaries are still extremely large... the list went on and on. Once the pain was manageable, and the episodes stopped I was sent home with a lot of medicine.

I have finally felt good the past couple of days. I went for my first walk last night and actually made it without being carried home. I haven't taken any medication this week, which is really exciting for me. I went to the doctor yesterday and the baby is growing and is very active, the heartbeat was 140 bpm. We will find out the sex of little peanut on Feb 12th. I cannot wait to find out if Baby Wilson will be little Olivia or Jackson!

Our holidays were really nice and relaxing. I didn't do too much besides laying around and staying off of my feet. We had three Christmases here in Louisiana and drove up to St. Louis for the fourth. After a week out of work for my back and then two weeks out for Christmas and New Years I am having a hard time getting back in the swing of things!

I will leave you with a photo from one year ago. Our nephew is celebrating his first birthday today!

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Music to our ears

I had another doctor's appointment yesterday, 10 weeks and 4 days, we heard baby Wilson's heartbeat. The heartbeat sounded very fast, it wasn't strong enough for the Doppler to pick up the exact bpm. My doctor said it was about 170 bpm, he's been doing this for quite a while, so I guess we'll go with his instinct:)

Everything is going well, I am a little anemic so I started taking medicine for that last night. We are looking forward to a quiet weekend!

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